SPIRITISM IN THE KRKONOŠE MOUNTAINS

The year is 1880, and young Ignaz Etrich, son of Josef Etrich, a prominent textile industrialist from Trutnov, arrives in the Trutnov region with a remarkable intellectual and spiritual doctrine called spiritism. He begins organising séances at the factory, the first of their kind in Bohemia. Spiritism spreads rapidly from the foothills to the villages of the Krkonoše Mountains and gradually transforms into a He began organising séances in his factory, the first of their kind in Bohemia. Spiritualism quickly spread from the foothills to the villages of the Krkonoše Mountains and gradually transformed into a specific popular folk belief. Ethnologist Libor Dušek, who has personally met several spiritualists from the Krkonoše Mountains, will guide you through this themed evening.